INVERCARGILL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 292, 26 November 1862, Page 5

INVERCARGILL.

[from our own correspondent.] Invercargill, 21st Nov., 18G2. The Chief Surveyor returned last night from a tour of inspection in the immediate vicinity of the Nokomai diggings At the nineteen rush numbers are doing well, provisions scarce, roads being bad. At Potters Gully about 2,000 men were digging when he left; numbers coming over from "the Duustan, which is twenty miles off. His opinion is, that the Upper Nevis is nothing very particular. The Lower Nevis, near its junction with the Kawarau promises to he decidedly rich.' There were several parties up the Valley of the Wakaia. Shirley's party, sinkinglin the fiat ofthe old Wliakatipu Diggings, had notbottomed,though tbey were sixty feet down ; much troubled with water, slabbing all the way. The party is hardly strong enough, only four, but they are determined to bottom, and were in goo 1 soirits."From another source Ilearu that those in the Nokomai continued to do fairly and are contented, though the recent rushes to Nevis, kc, have rather drained it of people. The Nokomai seems to be a winter disfgiass. * A good fieal ot gold is reported to be waiting transmission to town. In Invercargill there are in the banks 710 ounces^ and doubtless tliere would be much more if we couid run an escort.

•? n li 13 M ay do,vn t0 Illverfi3rgill the Chief Surveyor laid off a bmck of half-acre sections in the township ot Gore, at .the long foivl, Mataura, which will shortly be open for sale. It is a splendid site for a town, magnificent laud, on the b;;sfc road to Dunedin, this route benm- preferable to that by the Popotunoa Uorgo and opening up a great deal more country, though it- is about twenty miles longer, wliir-h is much more tlrm compensated by the leveiness of tha country though whl-h it passes. The township will. I think, go ahead rapidly ; already a house of accommodation is being built ami a. ferry established. In aidition to the interesting specimen in the, political economist line of business I mentioned m my last, wo sliall probably be able to send you a few "other natural productions for your exhibition—such as a block of the limestone recently discovered on the Nortii-roa-I. a discovery of incalculable importance to us ; also specimens of coal from Jacob's River • iron sand, wool, granite from the Bluff, &c, &c.' The notice given is very short, which is a pity, as we irngiit have got up a tolerably cralifcab.e cabinet, ihe business at the Resident Magistrate's Courtis rapi-ily increasing, which, I presume, may be looked upon as significant of progress. So soon as the Resident Magistrate's Extended Jurisdiction Act comes into operation here, their number will I suspect, rapidly increase—more rapidly than 'the Resident Magistrate's salary, I fear, to judge from tne past. He is most inadequately' paid for the amount of work and responsibility of his position, not to mention the thorough efficiency he displays in the discharge of his duties. More thau one case will be sent for trial to Dunedin, though I should hone, now that there is a resident judge appointed in Dunedin, we shall have lav occasional visit from him, and havo our cases I tried on the spot; the expense to the Province, and loss of time and trouble to private individuals is considerable. The mere sending up two or three constartles in charge of prisoners, is very inconvenient, with our limited force. I trust time will cure this as it is.supposed to cure everything. ' A man namod Drummond has just been committed for trial, for :ui indecent a-srait on a young girl. His wife and four children arrived four -days after, from' Tasmania.

Mr Tibbets, tiie brother oi the late Captain Tibbets, and Coppinger. lately a member of the Southland Police Force, were brought into Invercargill under warrant, for an assault on a man named Qtihke a trooper in your force j the ease is to be tried tomorrow.

From what I ran gather. Mr Tibbets and Conpinger, both inebriate-:!, began quarreliin S - a t the Nokomai police Station, the trooper stationed there being away on duty, his wife getting friditcned sent a boy to Mr Hill's station, about half a mile oft; for protection. Constable Quirk came over and succeeded in separating them. Coppinger pretended to go away, but returned on horseback, and beiran abusm" both Mr Tibbets and the trooper, who in the meaiv while had been trying to calm down Mr Tibbets who was in a very excited state. Mr Quirk going up to Coppinger, the latter struck him on the temple with a loaded whip, and hefore he could recover again on the head. Quirk succeeded in pulliu" him off the horse, and wheu he had got him down° Tibbets came to Coppiuger's rescue, and attempted to p ill oft Quirk, having no assistance and the iiandculxs, usualjy at the station, being away, let both go, getting a warraut for their apprehension.

The Titania came up to the Invercargill Jetty on the 18th ; she is an exact ditto to the Guiding Star, if anything, sailing faster. She will be a great acquisition to this place, aud will no doubt pay her owners well, even with the Guiding Star competing which vessel, it is anticipated, will be fit for sea in a short time, though she is not as vet off sh-u-e The Town Board is taking advantage of the influx of labor. All the bush streets are being rapidly cleared, stumps grubbed out, kc, a great security against Are. Drainage is being ako efficiently and systematically carried out, though at present the drams, some of which are deep and wide with a good deal of water in them, not being covered in, present formidable obstructions to henry individuals cruising about at night. Thsre is a certain amount of good though, attending every evil, at least so philosophers say, and the open drains must be a source of satisfaction to fathers of small means and large families Lying in their vicinity. '

Vessels in New ltiver—Titania, Eucalyptus. 174 tons, Fair Tasmanian 144, Wave 195, Prince Albert 82, Pilot. We have an addition to our lighters, in the Pioneer, brought over in the Wave ; we have now three good ones besides the steam tug Aphrasia. The Eucalyptus, from Tasmania, had a remarkably smart run, rather under five da^s. She brings a good deal of the materials for the addition to the Jetty here, which I trust will progress rapidly, Messrs Greville and Whilten evidently meaning it. The Aphrasia is reported to have beeu at the Bluff yesterday. The City of Hobart called iv at the Bluff on the 18th, dropping and taking mails and passengers.

The Australia and Mimmie Dyke, from Victoria, are hourly expected in New Hiver, and the Midas with sheep at the Bluff.

The Excellent, 1,200 tons, entered the Bluff yesterday, with 4,000 sheep, for Thompson and Crisp A very fine vessel. The Aphrasia not in. Weather has been very breezy lately, strong winds from south-west. Seems inclined to be quiet aud fine now. Titania leaves for Dunedin to-day.

The Murder op Mr. Fitzgerald.—The mother ot Walsh, the recently executed convict, v*dio was a woman of tbe very humblest class, being almost a beggar, displayed throughout the who c history of this terrible drama, the mo.t extraordinary and touching affection for her guilty son. During the time that he wa3 in hiding she acted as a keen and clever scout, and it was chir-fly through her watchfulness tuat he was so long able to evade the pursuit of justice. When she found that ali her efforts were useless, and that Walsh was captured, she strove to have him accepted as an approver. - n the day of his sentence it was a terrible sight to watch her for a whole day pacing to and fro before the courthouse, monotonously repeating in a low moving tone <' My son, my son." Even after that she did not quite abandon hope, conceiving that the revelations it was known he made would save his life. When this hope proved fallacious her reason utterly gave wav and she was taken to the workhouse a raging lunatic 1 Ins morning she was removed to the asylum of the county of Limerick, a case of confirmed and hopeless insanity. Tue Fitzgerald murder is like to prove no ordinary tragedy. Two men have perished upon the scaflo.d, the mother of one has become a maniac, and two more have yet to be tried for their lives. An awful lesson truly, and which, it any mere lesson could, should suppiesa the whisper of temptation to bloodgultiness, and stop the uplifted hand of passion.—Cork Examiner.

A Priestly Squib. -The priestly party in Italy nave issued the following ingenuous anagram or squib on the names of the Turin Cabinet as at present confuted Metteucci, DePreti Pepoli, Conforti, llattuzzi, Durando, Peisano, and Sella:— ' Matte ucoisioni d'uomini fratelli, De preti sistematico strapazzo, De roLitici nostri Macchiavelli Conforti sono c genial sollazzo; Ratt' Azziraarsi d'oro c di gioielli Spersa, cosi Durando, il vulgo pazzo : Ma^chi Persa nou ha ilragion bella Vede che Italia, abira£, cade di Sella." Yy hich may be translated thus:—" Much butchering ot tellow-men, and sysfematic-contempt for priests, become in toe hands of our political Maclnavels, sources of congratulation and joy. The mad crowd hopes to deck itself with gold and jewels thus iasti ing'yj.buthewhoia not bereft of fair reason sees | that meanwhile Italy falls from her throne." If the ! *?P? wpuld only indulge a little in this ingenious and Harmless species of revenge, he would not only I a:iWKhef from his troubles, but might, perhaps, moirne be^abe to forgive his enemies when he had enjoyed a few literary triumphs it tlieir expense. An anagram or conundrum would be a much more Christian occupation than an Interdict, or even'an I xcommunieating Bull j and here, too, Antonelli's I talents might be brilliantly QWsloxrt*~speettiQr*